Comment 42 for bug 404626

My Eee 901 also periodically hangs when suspending, or resuming from suspend. Is this perhaps related? I took a picture of the screen the one time I was able to get into a terminal before it went completely unresponsive. Sadly the picture is out of focus so its hard to make out what it says. Last few lines are something about devkit-power and libgobject. Ill include the pic anyway. Other times the machine simply hangs, a few times Ive clicked Suspend, after which nothing at all happens and I cant open the shutdown menu anymore. Killing X at this point leads to hanging and only powerdown from powerbutton works. Other times again, wlan goes off, machine suspends, comes back from suspend fine and even wlan comes back up.

I would really rather have the release set back and these issues fixed. I had serious issues with Jaunty as well, and after latest updates to Jaunty, my wlan stopped working completely in that as well - I can switch it on and off but network manager never registers it - which is why I bit the bullet and installed Karmic RC anyway. Which did not much improve the situation, sadly. At least suspend worked on Jaunty...

Also, does the "feel free to run the 2.6.31.5 mainline kernel build: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.31.5/" fix the suspend issue? Should I make another bug report of the suspend issue, or is there already one open? Is that going to be fixed? I will try that kernel anyway, cant hurt. Will report my experience back.

Also, I agree with what Andrew Wyatt said above. I was waiting for Karmic to fix the Intel video driver bugs and the periodic hard locks I had with Jaunty, but instead now it is worse with Karmic - and Jaunty updates stopped wlan working as well. That it might work on some other netbooks is hardly comforting. I have been using Ubuntu since Warty, and have installed it for several other people. The bugs that are present in final releases has been the biggest complaint for several people - and personally, I feel that making Ubuntu more stable and bug free should be more important than keeping some release date. One person of these actually went and bought a Mac after some frustrating stability issues across 2 releases (Hardy and Intrepid).

So please consider fixing these issues before release rather than after.